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Recording functions

To watch TV Programmes

1.Turn on your TV set.

2.Turn on your DVD recorder using the ON/STANDBY. The time displayed on your DVD recorder is replaced by the word MENU.

After a few seconds the main menu of the set appears on the television screen.

The Watch TV function is already selected.

Note: turn off non used devices to avoid problems of selecting sockets or other types.

If the main menu of the player is not displayed on the television screen, check and/or select the Scart socket to which you connected your DVD recorder (see page 4 - AV1 selection). Generally the selection is carried out using the AV key on the television set remote control.

If the THOMSON logo temporarily appears, it is because the screen saver has been triggered ; press the OK button to display the menu

3.Press the OK key of the remote control or one of the PR+/PR-, keys on the front panel.

The images of the last watched channel appear.

Encrusted within the image for a few seconds is information on the current channel and programme.This disappears after several seconds.

Note: when the information banner is displayed at the top of the screen you have the possibility of choosing an audio channel (if this is provided by the channel) using the B key on the remote control.

To display information again, press the INFO key of the remote control.

To change channel

Change the channel with the PR+/PR- - key or the remote control number keys.To select the channel of a device connected to your DVD recorder (satellite reciever) or to view images from a video recorder, use the AV button on the remote control or press the PR+/PR- button several

times to select one of the three connectors (AV1, AV2, AV3) to which the device is connected.

Note: where needed, see the connection diagrams on pages 14 and 15.

No. and name of the channel selected on the DVD recorder

Current time

Indications concerning the channel sound and the selection of audio channels. Selection is possible with the B key on the remote control.

Note: NICAM sound is digital, compatible with analogue tv sets. It is broadcast by certain channels and relayed by certain emmiters in some European countries. NICAM (Near Instantaneously Companded Audio Multiplex) is also used to broadcast Dolby Surround stereophonic programmes or for simultaneous broadcasting in two languages or for two different sounds (intended for blind and poorly sighted people).

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Technicolor - Thomson DTH8555 X manual To watch TV Programmes, To change channel

DTH8555 X specifications

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